A mum who thought she had found an insect in a packet of powdered milk has been told that the object was a piece of food.

The Evening Telegraph reported recently how Nicola Fox, aged 31, of Conway Avenue, Tile Hill, found the object in a packet of dried milk she was preparing for her children seven-month-old Elliot and Morgan, 21 months.

Experts from Coventry City Council's environ-mental health department sent the object to a laboratory for analysis.

They have now told her that scientists found the object to be a piece of food.

She said: "They said it was a food particle, possibly a bit of burned milk, and asked my permission to send it to Milupa (the makers of the milk) which I gave. It may be a food particle but it still shouldn't have been there.

"I'm waiting to hear from Milupa."

Staff at Milupa are investigating and have pledged to write to Mrs Fox when the investigation has finished.